Extra, Extra: Suburbs Rule, Making Electronics Recycling Cool, and Mark Your Agenda

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

Flying over Mississauga. Photo by LexnGer from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• What if suburbs, not cities, were the models the world should follow? Joel Kotkin argues as much in the new edition of Foreign Policy. Read it while watching that new Arcade Fire video.
• If you thought that a City of Toronto ad “to promote the city’s Solid Waste Management Services Division campaign to raise awareness of its service of free pick-up and recycling of electronics” would be boring, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. [via Mondoville, who hates it]
• And good news for those who’ve been waiting for a real, actually good mayoral debate: The Agenda will be hosting one on September 7.

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